Agriculture trade and tariff resources
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Ohio Farm Bureau’s Director of Water Quality and Research Jordan Hoewischer talks with Glen Arnold, associate professor and field specialist with OSU Extension, specializing in research related to manure application technology. This is the first installment of Field Day with Jordan Hoewischer, an ongoing series of conversations with industry experts and leaders who are helping to shape and secure the future of Ohio’s ag industry for generations to come.
Here are a few highlights from the first installment (listen here).
Click here to read the full Q & A with Glen Arnold:
About the research:
“We are in kind of a unique position here in Ohio. We do a lot more manure application research here that I’ve seen in other any other areas of the Midwest…we have more than 50 on-farm plots and we’ve also done a lot of research with the OARDC small-farm plots and have been real happy with the results.”
About the results:
“If you look at the Bobby Moser pyramid – it had to be economically viable, which it is. It had to be environmentally viable, which it is. We’re incorporating the manure as it’s applied to a growing crop. And lastly it is socially viable. You’re placing manure underground. Your neighbors like that and it’s an opportunity to do a good job with our manure management.”
About the future:
“One of the questions I ask farmers is ‘Do you think you have made a significant change in your manure application practices that you think will result in less nutrients leaving your fields?’ and better than two-thirds of the farmers say they have in the last five years. There are a lot of farmers making changes and trying to be part of the solution in northwest Ohio. For a noticeable change, I think it’s going to take a while.”
CAPTION: Manure side dress tool on display at Farm Science Review. Photo courtesy of Ohio State Extension Environmental and Manure Management.
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